Sanitary dispensing apparatus



A ril 27, 1926. 1,582,451

H. B. COOLEY SANITARY DISPENSING APPARATUS Filed May 21],- 4925 VEN TOR.

Patented Apr. 27, lgzt'i.

HENRY B. COOLEY, 033 KENSING-TGN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNGR TO THE AMERICAN PAPER GOODS CGMPANY, (1F KENSZNGTON, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CON- SANITARY DISPENSING APPARATUS.

Application filcd To all le /tom, it may ()GitC'GF/t.

lie it known that l, Hnivnr B. Coons a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Kensington, in the county of Hart'fort and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in SanitaryDispensing Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the class of apparatus employed for dispensing various articles, and an object of my invention,

among others, is to provide. an apparatus of this class that is especially simple in construction and particularly etticient in operation; and a further object of the invention is to provide an apparatus of this class that snail be extremely sanitary.

One form of apparatus ei'nbodying my invention, and in the construction and use of which the objects herein set out, as well as others, may be attained, is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a side view of my. improved dispensing apparatus.

Figure 2 is a similar View with the lower part of the magazine broken away and showing the detents at the instant of preliminary engagement with the stack of cups in the magazine.

Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 2, but showing the position of the detents just after disengagement or the lower cup in the stack from the retainer in the magazine.

Figure 4 is a view in cross section on a plane denoted by the dotted lines l -l in Fig. l. p

My invention is not limited in its use to an apparatus for dispensing articles, as it may be readily employed in vending inachines. Neither is i limited in its use to an apparatus for dispensing or vending any specific class of articles, but as it is readily adapted for use'in an apparatus tordispensing drinking cups, I have selected such an apparatus for the purpose of illustrating d describing my invention here-in.

Such apparatus comprises in its structure a case. or magazine 6 and asupport 7, said support and magazine being arranged for relative movement one with respect to the other. In the special form of apparatus herein disclosed the support 7 is in the form or a post secured to and rising from a base 8 that m..y be provided wi h a clamp 9 of any suitable construction for securing the 21, race. Serial No. 640,345.

apparatus to a lined object,'as a shelf. A bracket 10 is secured to the upper end of the post and the case or magazine 6 is pivotally attached, preferably at its upper part, to said bracket. This magazine has a retainer or retainers ll projecting from the surface of its inner wall and an opening through said wall. The retainer or retainers are preferably located on one side of the magazine only and adjacent to said opening.

A retaining detent 1S and a disengaging detent 14.- are supported for relative movement with respect to the case and also with r pect to each other. In a particularly satisfactory device these retainers are, either or both, supported forswinging movement in such manner that the disengaging detent will have a disengaging movement with respect to the retaining detent, the term disen aging hein emnloved herein to denote D a. C1 .1 u

that movement for disengaging articles, as cups, from a stack or pile of articles or cups.

In the particular form of apparatus illustrated and described herein, these detents are each supported by a spring and each detent is preferably in the form of a lip at the end of each spring. In this form of the apparatus the. retaining detent 13 is located on the case or magazine 6 and the disengagingdetent 14.- is secured to and projects from the'support 7. A spring 15 supporting the retainingdetent is bent outwardly away from the magazine and a spring 16. supporting the disengaging detent .is curved toward the magazine. so that the two detcnts, when in their normal positions, will be close together or in contact one w th the other.

In operation a stacl; or pile of cups 17 is located in the magazine with a bead or lip lSat the mouth of the bottom cup resting upon the retainers 11, the dctents being spaced from the stack or pile of cups, as shown in l igure l of the drawings. The magazine being new swung toward the post or support 7 both of the detents will be caused to make contact with the stack of cups, engaging such stack between the head or lip on the bottom cup in the stack and the bead or lip on the next cup thereto. A continued swinging movement of the magazinefand consequent swinging movement of the detents, will cause the disengaging de tent to move away from the retaining detent,

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and, being in engagement with the top cc ge of the botton'i cup in the stack, the latter will be forced away from the stack and will drop through the opening in the bottom of the magazine, the retaining detent, in conneetion with the retainers ll preventing downward movement of the balance of the cups in the stack. Upon a return movement of the magazine to its normal position the detents will assume their normal position as illustrated in Figure 1 and the operation may be repeated.

As a means for returning the magazine to its normal position, I have provided a magazine returning snring 19 attached at its opposite ends to the upper end of the magazine and to the support 7, but this returning; spring is not absolutely essential in all cases, as the springs bearing the detents may be employed to effect the operation of the magazine, but I prefer to employ the returning spring.

In order to provide for a sanitary use of this apparatus I form a magazine operating lip 20 on one side of the opening at the lower end of the magazine, against which lip a container 21, in the form of a cup if desired, may be pressed to move the magazine toward its support, this container being placed upon the upper surface of the clamp and pushed along such surface that serves as a table 22. In this operation the lower cup when it is disengaged from the stack will drop into said container, which, when removed from underneath the stack, will present the cup in readiness to receive a liquid, as a beverage, this without removing the cup from the container, and the beverage may be drunk without removing the cup from the container.

This apparatus is of particular value in dispensing beverages from soda fountains and the like, as the cups do not have to be handled by the person dispensing the beverage or by the person partaking of the beverage, and extremely sanitary conditions thus prevail.

It is not essential to my invention that the ma azine shall be mo uibly mounted to provide he relative movement between it and the detents, nor that the relative movement between the detents shall be obtained as herein set forth. nor that the detents shall be supported on the parts as herein illus trated. as other arrangements to secure the desired results may be made use of, and the invention is not therefore limited in its ap plication to the construction herein disclosed, although I prefer to arrange the mechanism hereinbefore specifically set out.

a means for snpplen'ienting the action of the disengaging detent I may provide a supplemental spring secured to the support T and arranged to press against the baclc of the spring 16 to aid the latter in its action.

In accordance with the provisions of the patent statutes I have described the principles of operation of my invention, together with the device which 1 now (onsider to represent the best embodiment thereof, but I desire to have it understoou that the device shown is only illustrative and that ihe invention may be carried out by other means and applied to uses other than those above set out.

I claim-- 1. A dispensing apparatus comprising a bare, a magazine member and a detent member supported in cooperatiie relation by said base, each of which is indepemlently mov bly mounted and in constant operative engagement, means for supporting a stack of articles in said magazine, means for moving o e of said members toward the other,

influenced by said movement to effect relative movement between the magazine and detent instantly at the beginning of such movement and longitudinally of the magazine to positively disengage an article from within said magazine, and means for thereafter starting and completing a return movement of the parts to their normal position.

dispensing apparatus comprising a base, a magazine member and a detent member supported in cooperative relation by said base and swingingly mounted one independently of the other and in constant operative engagement, means for supporting a stack of articles in said magazine, means for swingingly moving one of said members toward the other, means influenced by said swinging movement to effect relative movement between the magazine and detent instantly at the beginning of the swinging movement and longitudinally of the magazine to positively disengage an article from within the magazine, and means for thereafter starting and completing return movement of the parts to their normal positions.

8. A dispensing apparatus comprising a base, a magazine and a detent with the mag azine and detent mounted to move in curved paths from difierent centers supported in cooperative relation by said base with the magazine and detent swinging movements in one direction of the magazine and detent imparting relative movement between the detent and magazine longitiulinaIly of the latter, and means within the magazine for supporting articles in the path of movement of said detent.

4-. A dispensing apparatus conn'irising a base, a magazine supported by said has a detent fixed at one end in spaced cooperative relation with respect to the magazine and with its opposite end movable in a curved path and in constant engagement with the lllt) magazine, means for supporting articles in the magazine, and means for imparting relative movement between the magazine and fixed part of the detent to thereby cause relative n'iovement between the detent and mag azine longitudinally of the latter to disen gage articles from within the magazine.

A dispensing apparatus comprising a base, a magazine supported by said base, a detent pivotally mounted'on a fixed support on said base in cooperative relation with respect to said magazine and with its end to move in a circular path and contacting the magazine, means for supporting a stack of articles in the magazine, and means for in'iparting relative movement between said support and magazine to cause swinging movement of the detent and thereby movement of the detentlongitudinally of the magazine to disengage articles therefrom.

6. A dispensing apparatus comprising a base, a magazine supported by said base and pivotally mounted at one end, a detent supported by said base and located near the swinging end of the magazine in cooperative relation with respect thereto with one end engaging the magazine and movable in a curved path different from that of the magazine to cause movement of the detent longitudinally of the magazine when the magazine and detent are moved, and means for supporting articles within the magazine.

7. A dispensing appa'atus comprising a base, a magazine pivotally mounted at one end and supported by said base, a detent supported by said base located near the swinging end of the magazine in cooperative relation with respect thereto and comprising a spring arm fixed at one end and with its opposite end engaging the magazine and moving in a curved pathdiiferent from that of the magazine to cause movement of the detentlongitudinally of the magazine when the magazine and detent are moved, and means for supporting articles in the mag azme.

S. A dispensingapparatus comprising a support, a magazine pivotally mounted adjacent one end of the support, a detent mounted on the support with its free operative end engaging the magazine, the moun ing for the magazine and detent being at ditierent points to cause the free moving ends thereof to move through different curved paths with the operative end of the detent moving longitudinally of the magazine for the ejection of an article and remaining engaged with the magazine.

HENRY B. COOLEY. 

